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  • 3 - Pernicious Polarization and Democratic Resilience

  • from Part I - Why Might Polarization Harm Democracy?
  • Edited by Robert C. Lieberman, Suzanne Mettler, Cornell University, New York, Kenneth M. Roberts, Cornell University, New York
  • Book:
    Democratic Resilience
    Published online:
    20 November 2021
    Print publication:
    25 November 2021, pp 61-92

  • Summary

    This chapter unpacks and critically discusses the idea of democratic resilience vis-à-vis polarization that becomes “pernicious,” that is, it divides societies into mutually distrustful Us vs. Them camps. Democratic resilience, we argue, is a polity’s ability to produce electoral, programmatic, discursive, and organizational behavior that can jointly contain and reverse pernicious polarization and its democracy-eroding consequences. We apply comparative lessons to assess US resilience and vulnerability to such consequences, focusing on three factors: institutional constraints, formative rifts, and opposition capacities and strategies.